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Born 1879
From An illustrated history of Jackson County, Minnesota (1910)
HENRY A. STALL (1879) owns and farms the northeast quarter of section 2, Des Moines township. He was born on that farm May 29, 1879, the son of Oliver and Helen (Skogen) Stall, of whom the former is now living in Jackson and the latter died in 1901. Oliver Stall was born in Norway, came to the United States when young and located in Illinois.
He served three years as a soldier in the union army, and immediately after his discharge came to Jackson county, in the spring of 1865, when there were less than 250 residents in the whole of Jackson county. He homesteaded the farm now owned by his son in Des Moines township.
Henry was educated in the district schools of Des Moines township and until he reached his majority worked for his father on the farm. Then he rented the farm and conducted it under the lease until 1907. That year he bought the farm.
Mr. Stall was married in Enterprise township in September, 1903, to Bertha Wiger, who was born in Jackson county February 24, 1880. She is the daughter of the late Ole Wiger, who was one of the early settlers of Enterprise township and who died in 1905. Three children have been bom to Mr. and Mrs. Stall, namely: Hayes, Bert and Gordon. Mr. Stall is a member of the Modern Woodmen of America lodge.
As printed in An illustrated history of Jackson County, Minnesota (1910). See the original pages. Wording is the original; obvious scanning errors have been corrected, and a few may remain.
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